Sunday Ekesi, Samira Mohamed, Marc Meyer. 2016. Fruit Fly Research and Development in Africa - Towards a Sustainable Management Strategy to Improve Horticulture Springer,Pp.778. ISBN 3319432265, 9783319432267
Sunday Ekesi, Samira Mohamed, Marc Meyer. 2016. Fruit Fly Research and Development in Africa - Towards a Sustainable Management Strategy to Improve Horticulture Springer,Pp.778. ISBN 3319432265, 9783319432267
To date we have available only one particular recipe for the rearing of Olive fly larvae, and several versions for the rearing of adults, which is much easier. Please see Esets at all 2012, and Dimou, Rempoulakis and Economopoulos 2010 for details, other colleagues were kind enough to provide you with the relevant papers. Hope this helps, otherwise please write to me and I will guide you
I would like mention that many people have proposed my papers for the rearing of the larvae of the olive fruit fly and I think you can start from there. If you have difficulty in finding some of the constituents you have to look for alternatives that will provide equivalent nutritional value and physical characteristics. The texture is very important since besides the diet providing the necessary nutrients it is also the medium in which larvae live and must be able to ingest food, the liquid part of the medium, and provide adequate aeration without allowing the accumulation of excretion products that will affect development adversely. Good luck and I will be available for assistance if needed. Regards John Tsitsipis
Thank you very much for this interesting information, and for your advice. I will try first the medium that you have proposed, I will keep you informed of the result.
I believe that Oxitec, in Oxford, UK, has a research program on olive fly. And they mass rear it in their laboratories. They may be able to help you. Try their website.